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Tonight my server stopped answering to ssh, ping, so I drove to the server room.
Server did not respond to keyboard (even Ctrl-Alt-Del), there was no data on screen (it was black, no symbols on it), ...

I am building a custom NAS with Debian Jessie. Has three 4TB hard drives in a software RAID5 configuration. Works perfectly when all three drives are present.
I am trying to test what happens when if ...

I had just asked this question where I was unable to boot after installing a new RAID1 Array. I was able to get to the terminal, but once I sorted that out I realized that my problem isn't so much an ...

I know there are similar questions to this but none specific to RAID 10 extracted from a NAS, so any help is greatly appreciated.
So, basically the NAS is kaput but the drives are ok. Following the ...

I have my /boot partition in a RAID 1 array using mdadm. This array has degraded a few times in the past, and every time I remove the physical drive, add a new one, bring the array being to normal, ...

I have a mdadm-managed RAID1 with a single EXT4 partition on it (having both the OS files and GRUB's files in /boot/grub), and I'd like to know what modules and what configuration do I need for GRUB ...

I am running out of space on my root partition and would like to steal some from a different partition. The drives are 2x120GB with mdadm software RAID.
I am using CentOS 6.5 64-bit. I used the centos ...

I have a RAID5 array consisting of 3 identical 2TB drives. Suddenly GRUB wouldn't boot anymore and gave the error out of disk.
Eventually booted a livecd and ran some mdadm commands:
mdadm --examine ...

I've a debian installation and during the installation I had made 3 mdadm raid disk: swap, root and home. I had done it with partman and it had made the mdadm disk without partition table.
Now I want ...

I'm going to be building a media server soon and I want to know how hard it would be to rebuild an array in the event of an ssd failure. Here's what I'm doing. I'm going to have a 128GB SSD boot drive ...

I am struggling with setting up an encrypted NAS for some days now. The basic plan is to have btrfs on lvm on luks on raid1 with lvmcache in writeback mode thrown in for the root partition to reduce ...

I have a Debian Wheezy system with a couple of 500 GB HDDs in RAID-1 (mdadm mirror), on top of which sits LVM logical volumes with 5 partitions (boot, root, usr, var and tmp), total size of 47.15 GiB. ...

A couple of years ago, I installed a raid 5 with mdadm on a fedora box. The old hardware died recently, and I have put the boot disk in a newer desktop pc, and added the thee raid disks via usb.
So ...

I had RAID5 array of three disks with no spares. There was a power out, and on reboot, the array failed to come back up. In fact, it the /dev/md127 device disappeared entirely, and was replaced by an ...

Currently I have my root (/) directory on my ssd, and my home directory on my mechanical drive. Wanting to utilize more of the ssd and hopefully get a speed benefit, I was considering spanning across ...

I have a computer with a Gigabyte GA-Z97N-Gaming 5 mainboard, a 256 GB drive for booting and two 3 TB drives meant to use in a RAID 0 setup with both ext4 and NTFS partitions. We are planning running ...

I have an AMD64 Gentoo (running systemd) build with a RAID0 root and some other arrays (RAID1 boot, RAID1 home etc..). The boot process is being slowed down quite dramatically as mdadm searches the ...